Marcus Aurelius:"While I deeply regret the unfair and misleading attacks on Susan Rice in recent weeks, her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first."

Is Obama the biggest troll in America, or what?

And don't forget what happened after the GOP torpedoed Elisabeth Warren for the Consumer Protection department. She ended up on the Senate banking committee. Something tells me the GOP didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.

So, she is going to go all Obi-Wan on the GOP? I can't wait!"You can't win, GOP. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

Marcus Aurelius:halfof33: The claim that it arose out of a protest at the Embassy was pure bullshiat, and they should have known better.

I believe you made that claim in the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this.

badLogic:Marcus Aurelius: "While I deeply regret the unfair and misleading attacks on Susan Rice in recent weeks, her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first."

Is Obama the biggest troll in America, or what?

And don't forget what happened after the GOP torpedoed Elisabeth Warren for the Consumer Protection department. She ended up on the Senate banking committee. Something tells me the GOP didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.

So, she is going to go all Obi-Wan on the GOP? I can't wait!"You can't win, GOP. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

I didn't even know the lady before a bunch of harpies started screaming about a press conference she gave that virtually no one saw, but she seems well qualified for a lot of positions. Like my dinner date, for example.

Susan Rice, the embattled U.S. ambassador to the U.N., withdrew her name on Thursday from consideration to be Secretary of State in the face of angry Republican criticisms.

"If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly-to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities," Rice wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama

This woman flushes more class down the toilet than every seated jackass with an (R) next to their name could ever fake having.

/by the way, you might want to brush up on your grammar. No matter how many times you repeat "and the thread before this" it is referring to one thread. You wanted to repeat "and the thread before that one." The more you know!

halfof33:Marcus Aurelius: believe you made that claim in the thread before this

It is not a "claim" it is a fact.

/by the way, you might want to brush up on your grammar. No matter how many times you repeat "and the thread before this" it is referring to one thread. You wanted to repeat "and the thread before that one." The more you know!

it's one of those weird conservative facts that has no base in reality.

born_yesterday:Marcus Aurelius: halfof33: The claim that it arose out of a protest at the Embassy was pure bullshiat, and they should have known better.

I believe you made that claim in the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this, and the thread before this.

The GOP would love to see Scott Walker appointed to his senate seat should Kerry up and go.

Mass governor is a Dem. Like Propasaur said, he's likely to up and appoint himself.

/as blagoyovich said, a senate seat is a valuable gotdamned thing

I thought Mass. doesn't do appointments, just special elections, which is why Brown got in in the first place.

I'm not sure MA is ready for Brown. He still has looser stink all over him. Besides, I think Kerry really likes being Senior Senator from MA it's kind of the perfect job for him, and he could hold that seat till he dies if he wants. Also if the Rethugs are so hot for it why cater to them?

Don't think for a second that Kerry doesn't want the job. He knows his name is going around--he wouldn't let that continue at this point if he didn't want the job. He wants it for the same reason Clinton wanted it: it's a more powerful position. More distinguished, Glamorous, global travel, while acting as THE representative of the US. It's arguably the next best thing to being the actual president.

halfof33:Marcus Aurelius: believe you made that claim in the thread before this

It is not a "claim" it is a fact

So the mean old administration made a claim that you didn't actually witness on TV but which you were outraged about after seeing it on the news about them not revealing the true details of an investigation in progress of a terrorist attack where the perpetrators had not yet been identified nor apprehended, and you are outraged?

heh.....while I am pretty peeved that she had to withdraw, I am a bit relieved as it would have been one of those nasty confirmations that would have distracted congress for yet another month.

On the other hand, I am sure that Team Obama has a plan to grind the faces of the GOP into the pavement over this. TO generally does not leave much to chance. So in withdrawing, I am sure it is just a step in a plan that is already in place and has been for weeks.

Marcus Aurelius:For letting people have guns again, or for letting the bankers off the hook? That's a tough sell, because the GOP is frothy for both.

I'm not sure it particularly matters as to the reason. The base loathes him because they have told themselves for years that he's a militant black panther type. Hell, Susan Rice was/is Ambassador to the UN. She had nothing to do with Libya, or security forces in the middle east or how any intelligence on 9/11/12 was interpreted.

propasaurus:Obama should do something like appoint her WH Chief of Staff. Make the Republicans go through her if they want to talk to the President.

THIS.

And Obama should take advice offered in earlier FARK threads: nominate a Republican for the position, one who would be replaced by a Democrat. Watch the Republicans tear apart one of their own in order to prevent the seat from falling into Democratic hands.

Perhaps Rice was offered up as a sacrificial lamb of sorts, seeing as to how the republicans would likely try to kill whatever nomination Obama would have offered up. Now the republicans have their scalp to wave around and Obama can select who he really wants.

Thigvald the Big-Balled:propasaurus: Obama should do something like appoint her WH Chief of Staff. Make the Republicans go through her if they want to talk to the President.

THIS.

And Obama should take advice offered in earlier FARK threads: nominate a Republican for the position, one who would be replaced by a Democrat. Watch the Republicans tear apart one of their own in order to prevent the seat from falling into Democratic hands.

halfof33:Marcus Aurelius: believe you made that claim in the thread before this

It is not a "claim" it is a fact.

/by the way, you might want to brush up on your grammar. No matter how many times you repeat "and the thread before this" it is referring to one thread. You wanted to repeat "and the thread before that one." The more you know!

Yet neither you nor anyone else has ever shown any proof of this "fact". All you do is scream debunked talking points and outright lies.